We clarify the nature of dynamic coupling in plasmonic resonators and determine the dynamic coupling coefficient using a simple analytic model. We show that plasmonic resonators, such as subwavelength holes in a metal film which can be treated as bound charge oscillators, couple to each other through the retarded interaction of oscillating screened charges. Our dynamic coupling model offers, fo...

Magnonics, or spin wave based spintronics, is an emerging technology where magnons—quanta for waves—process the information analogous to electronic charges in electronics. We introduce fundamental components of a magnonic device and briefly discuss their electrical control. The magnetic waveguide—an integral part circuit—guides signal (magnon current) desired frequency, vector, phase, amplitude...

OBJECTIVE We compared differences in the hospital charges, length of hospital stay, and mortality between patients with healthcare- and community-associated bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, and pneumonia due to antimicrobial-resistant versus -susceptible bacterial strains. METHODS A retrospective analysis of an electronic database compiled from laboratory, pharmacy, surgery, ...

Silicon-based dielectric thin films such as SiO2 and Si3N4 are commonly used as insulation layers in electrostatic microactuators to protect the device from short circuiting if the electrodes are in contact. However, dielectric films can store bulk and/or surface static charges. In this paper, the effect that these static charges have on the force applied by an electrostatic actuator is analyze...

Introduction: Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have conventionally used overlapping (0.5–2.5 mm) polysilicon gates to achieve charge transfer between gates with a very high charge transfer efficiency (CTE) [1]. Since conventional CMOS processes do not allow poly-overlaps, it was not possible to achieve a ‘true’ CCD structure in this process until now, though efforts were made in this direction [2]...

An integrating sphere charge coupled device ~CCD!-based measurement system has been developed to accurately characterize the optoelectronic performance of organic polymer light-emitting devices ~PLEDs!. By theoretically analyzing a previously developed lens-coupled method and comparing it with the integrating sphere CCD-based method, we have found that the integrating sphere-based measurement m...

We study the statistics of charge transport in a mesoscopic three-terminal device with one superconducting terminal and two normal-metal terminals. We calculate the full distribution of transmitted charges into the two symmetrically biased normal terminals. In a wide parameter range, we find large positive cross correlations between the currents in the two normal arms. We also determine the thi...

This paper uses a fully nonlinear model to comprehensively explore the coupled effects caused by system integration between an offshore wind turbine and heaving buoy wave energy converter. Parameters of study include pitch motion turbine, tension on mooring line, contact pressure these two devices, absorbed power take-off (PTO) system. Results demonstrated that stabilises/reduces when its metac...